Met the new bosses today. One seems very down-to-earth and genuinely welcoming. The other (the uber-boss) appears to have risen to his position on the sheer strength of his dickheadedness and assholosity. At least I didn't get stuck next to him at dinner. This is a guy who ignores all women who are not waiting on him, and then is rude and arrogant. When he was leaving and shaking hands all around, he didn't even bother to make eye contact. If he had, and if I had had one more glass of wine, I might just have told him that I've outlasted better assholes than him at this game.

Lunch today with a woman who used to work for our company. She now works for a medical software firm that was acquired a few years ago by a German company. She desperately wants to leave them and come back and work for us again after putting up with the project from hell (mandatory overtime, being told to do things that are ethically questionable, lack of support from her management). Things could certainly be worse than having my boss's boss's boss be a misogynistic moron.